Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Presidential Determination
No. 2001-23
August 9, 2001

SUBJECT: Waiver of Sanctions for
the Export of Select U.S.
Munitions List U.S.-Origin Helicopter and Armored
Personnel Carrier Spare Parts and Ammunition from
the United States to Pakistan

Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United
States, and consistent with Title IX of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79), I hereby waive the
application of the restrictions contained in sections 101 and 102 of
the Arms Export Control Act, as they have been applied under the
International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and determine and certify to
the Congress that the application of such restrictions would not be in
the national security interests of the United States:

With respect to Pakistan, insofar as such
restriction would otherwise
apply to the sale of certain specified
U.S.-origin helicopter and
armored personnel carrier spare parts and
ammunition to Pakistan for
use in its deployment in Sierra Leone in
support of UN peacekeeping
operations.

You are authorized and
directed to transmit this determination and certification to the
appropriate committees of the Congress and to arrange for its
publication in the Federal Register.